Kane County Eaglets Will Have To Be Hand-Raised

Bald eagles had their nest rebuilt after a severe storm destroyed it by the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation (Photo Credit: Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation)Eagles had their nest rebuilt after a severe storm destroyed it by the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation (Photo Credit: Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation)

UPDATED 06/03/11 1:13 p.m.

BATAVIA, Ill. (CBS) — Bald eagle parents have rejected a man made replacement for a wind torn nest near Batavia, so it looks like their eagle babies will have to be hand-raised.

As WBBM Newsradio 780’s John Cody reports, Dawn Keller, director of Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation, said placed the babies in a manmade nest a couple of trees away from the original one, but the parents rejected the new nest and stopped feeding them in the new place.

“It could have been that it wasn’t high enough. It could have been that it wasn’t at the top of a tree. But we got it as high as we could have. We didn’t think it was prudent to put it in the original nesting tree, because that nest tree was really thin and kind of spindly,” Keller said.